Package Summary

dwoslam is a VSLAM system that is able to track an RGB-D camera, like the Microsoft Kinect, combining visual features and realtime ICP to achieve high performance and accuracy. Then, it looks for connections between key-frames and uses a double-window technique to globally optimize the whole graph.

* Author: Nicola Fioraio, Kurt Konolige, Boris Lau
* License: BSD
* Source: svn https://kforge.ros.org/dwoslam/svn/trunk

Overview

The package is still under development. At the time of writing, it provides an easy-to-use interface to add Generalized-ICP constraints to an existing g2o graph and a KLT+ICP camera tracker to effectively combine those constraints with 2D features in a uniform framework.

Getting Started

First, get the code from kforge.ros.org and rosinstall some dependencies:

mkdir overlays
svn co https://kforge.ros.org/dwoslam/svn/trunk overlays/dwoslam
rosinstall overlays /opt/ros/diamondback overlays/dwoslam/dwoslam.rosinstall

Then, build everything:

source overlays/setup.sh
rosmake --rosdep-install dwoslam

Run The Realtime GICP Demo

To run a simple realtime GICP demo, launch your Kinect (see openni_kinect), or start playing a bagfile; then:

rosrun dwoslam realtime_gicp_demo rgb:=/image_color/topic depth:=/depth/topic info:=/rgb/camera_info/topic

To see a complete list of options:

rosrun dwoslam realtime_gicp_demo --help

The known commands are shown in the terminal and are caught by the OpenCV window:

spacebar

start/pause

r

reset (restart from scratch)

c

close the loop (experimental)

Run The KLT+ICP Tracker

To run the KLT+ICP tracker:

rosrun dwoslam dwo_node [file.bag] --topics /camera/rgb/image_color /camera/depth/image /camera/rgb/camera_info --harris --do-icp

If no bagfile is provided it starts an online session. To see a complete list of options:

rosrun dwoslam dwo_node --help

Commands caught by the OpenCV window:

• online session

  spacebar

  restart

  g

  write the graph to pdf

  testing session

  spacebar

  restart

  g

  write the graph to pdf

  s

  skip frame

  c

  continue (track this frame)

  f

  go to frame no...(write the frame number in the terminal window)

  t

  go to timestamp...(write the timestamp -ns- in the terminal window)

  e

  exit

When the graph is drawn in the viewer, the program could stop: simply press 'q' in the 3D window.

C++ API

The code is still under development, the API is subject to change and therefore the code is not yet publicly available. If you are a developer and want to contribute, please ask to be added to the developer list.